Since I often seem to get the crappy jobs, I had to put the darn thing back in. But it wouldn’t go in. I opened the emergency kit that I’d been given for times like this and removed the emergency tube.   It was to be put in if the regular MicKey wouldn’t go  but it wouldn’t go in either. So now I was out of ideas. You have one hour to get the G-tube back in before you risk needing to have another surgery to replace it so the pressure was on. My hour was ticking away and so I needed to get her to the hospital to have something put in there to hold the stoma open.  She was screaming like she’d been seriously hurt herself and I didn’t want to put her in the car seat because I didn’t know if she was injured or not.  So short of driving to the hospital with an infant in my lap my only option was to call 911. The ambulance arrived and the paramedics were rather dismayed to discover that we needed a G-tube installed.  Needless to say, they weren’t going to put it back for me. They did an assessment and discovered that she needed to go to the hospital but not because of the G-tube, it was because she had major chest congestion. By this time Ali had calmed down a bit and I decided to try the emergency kit again since I wasn’t going to get much help.  The emergency tube went in. I refused transport to the hospital because with the emergency tube in the stoma I could now tranport her myself. Once the paramedics left, I got really brave and I decided to try to put the mickey back in and finally I was able to put it in.  I’ve learned a valuable lesson here.  It’s very difficult to insert a G-tube when your child is upset.  They tense up their muscles and make it hard to get it in.  Later we went to see the doctor again to check on the chest congestion and the doctor felt that it has improved from yesterday so things look good!

So I never got my nap but I have now installed my first G-tube.  Our lives are so exciting!